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City Birmingham Multi-Modal Transportation Plan

Visioning Workshop Results Meeting

Monday, January 28, 2013

7:30 PM, City Hall

Norman Cox, PLA, ASLA

The Greenway Collaborative, Inc. Ann Arbor, Michigan

The Greenway Collaborative, Inc. www.greenwaycollab.com

The Greenway Collaborative, Inc

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Community Visioning Workshop

• Overview of Best

Practices &

Inventory and

Analysis Findings

• Individual and Group

Exercises:

– Role Playing

– Corridor

Evaluations

– Neighborhood

Connectors and

Trails

– Downtown

Birmingham

– Woodward Avenue

Baldwin Public Library

January 17th from 7pm to 9pm

43 people signed in


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Group Exercises: Corridor Evaluations

• Major and Minor

Corridors

• Participants asked

to vote on what

they thought the

appropriate

balance should be

between:

– Road Crossings

– Bicycle Facilities

– Motor Vehicle

Flow & Speed

Pedestrian

road crossings Better Motor

Vehicle Flow

Designated

Bike Facilities No Bike

Facilities


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Major Corridor: East Maple Avenue

• Balance between Pedestrian Crossings and Motor Vehicle Flow

• No clear direction for bicycle facilities


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Major Corridor: Maple Ave (Downtown)


• Shared Lane Marking


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Major Corridor: West Maple Ave


• Parallel Bike Routes


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Major Corridor: Southfield Road

• Pedestrian Crossings

• Shared Lane Marking


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Major Corridor: Adams Road (North of Madison)


• Bike Lanes through 4 to 3 lane conversion


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Major Corridor: 14 Mile Road


• Shared Lane Marking vs. Parallel Bike Route


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Minor Corridor: S. Eton Road (E Maple to Lincoln)

• Safer Pedestrian

Road Crossings

• More Frequent

Pedestrian Road

Crossings

• Bike Line with On-

street Parking on

One Side of the

Street


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Minor Corridor: Oak Avenue (Chesterfield to Quarton)


Road Crossings

• More Frequent

Pedestrian Road

Crossings

• Buffered Bike

Lanes and No On-

Street Parking


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Minor Corridor: W Lincoln Street (Cranbrook to Southfield)

• Balance between

Safer Pedestrian

Road Crossings

and Motor Vehicle

Speeds

• Balance between

Frequent

Pedestrian Road

Crossings and

Motor Vehicle

Flow

• No Clear Direction

for Bicycle

Facilities


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Minor Corridor: Lincoln Street (Southfield to Woodward)


Road Crossings

• More Frequent

Pedestrian Road

Crossings

• Keep on-street

parking on both

sides of streets

• Shared Lane

Markings or Keep

as it Currently

Exists


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Neighborhood Connector Routes

Comments noted by more

then one group:

• Improve pedestrian crossing

at Woodward Ave and Oak

St

• Crossing needed on W

Maple at Rouge Trails

• Enhance crossing at

Woodward Ave and

Chapin/Emmons

• Add full crossing at

Woodward Ave and Forest

• Crossing Improvement

needed at Maple and Like

Park Drive

• Need pedestrian bridge in

Linn Smith Park over river

• Provide connection railroad

district to connect to new

transit and over to Target

• Like the proposed pathway

connection along Woodward

Ave between Wimbledon Dr

and Oak Ave


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Downtown

Comments noted by more

then one group:

1. W Maple at Park – Kill

remnants of by-pass

5. Woodward Ave at Forest –

Dangerous, needs a light

11. Forest at Peabody – Fix,

make all stop

12. Woodward Ave at Maple –

Fix crossing, crossing light

needs to be longer for

pedestrian crossing

14. Park at Oakland – Fix

Dangerous Intersection

16. Woodward Ave at Maple –

Pedestrian tunnel or bridge

needed


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Woodward Corridor

Vision for Woodward

• Balance between

Main Street and

By-Pass


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Woodward Corridor

Space Allocation:

• Narrow Sidewalk

• Parallel Parking

• Landscape Buffer

• Designated Transit

Facilities

• Use of Travel

Lane

• Service Drive with

a Bike Lane vs.

One-way Cycle

Track


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Project Vision, Goals and Objectives

• The purpose is to

guide the

development of

the plan

• Drawn from Web

Survey responses

– 429 responses

• Revised by the

Project Steering

Committee

• Web Survey

provided for one

week after

workshop to get

feedback


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Project Vision, Goals and Objectives Survey Results

• 14 people

participated in web

survey, 1 person

provided written

response

• Strongly Agreed:

– Vision 71%

– Complete

Infrastructure 82%

– A Connected

Community 60%

– Inclusive

Transportation

System 67%

• Concerns of traffic

impact, tax

implications,

priorities, need

3 Disagreements

2 Disagreements

2 Disagreements

3 Disagreements


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Comment Cards

Due to the tightly

structured meeting,

comment cards were

available for any

additional comments

from participants

• Very concerned about loss of street parking. I

live at corner of Lincoln and Pierce and if street

parking is lost I could lose all street parking

which is needed. Make Lincoln (Woodward to

Southfield) bump outs permanent.


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Next Steps

• Preliminary Plan

Workshop Feb 28

– 3pm to 5pm

– 7pm to 9pm

• City Commission

Meeting March 11

– To review results

of Preliminary

Plan Workshop

Please visit the project website at:

www.greenwaycollab.com

Vision, Goals & Objectives Survey

Web Survey & Workshop Results

Draft Inventory and Analysis Maps

Project Materials and Updates

Questions or Comments

Norm Cox, PLA, ASLA

The Greenway Collaborative, Inc.

205 Nickels Arcade

Ann Arbor, MI 48104

734-668-8848

[email protected]

www.greenwaycollab.com

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